Word: finely
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Senior pitcher Tasha Cupp (17-5) picked up thefinal win of her fine collegiate career. The IvyLeague Pitcher of the Year gave up just three hitsand two unearned runs while striking out three infive innings of work. Thoke pitched the sixth andseventh to pick up her fourth save of the season...
...well-placed, nicely phrased philosophical riff, like when Lou interrupts his constant agonizing over the power plant to observe "the sun balanced on the very spot where sea meets coast." The nuances of Hex's odd childhood, when pretentious Billie served him meals with "frozen foods accompanying the fine wines of Bordeaux," and when Hex wanted nothing more than to muse over "the math of [girls'] pulses," are immaculately rendered...
...faculty, as a whole, are devoting too much time to graduate students, this is news to some in GSAS. An article in the Gazette (Apr. 23) discusses current contact between graduate students and advisers: "Some students are fine if they check in infrequently, even once a year, while others need more regular, even monthly, contact...
...military?s spin doctors appeared to do no better than their expensive anti-missile missile today. Choice item from the Pentagon statement on the THAAD failure: ?The target worked fine...
Back and forth go the worries, while in reality the economy has been riding a fine line of perfection: slow growth, low inflation, steady profits. In retrospect it's clear that the constantly reversing worries were a signal that there was nothing to worry about. Bearing that out are stock market gains averaging 31% a year since 1995. One day there will actually be a problem, and rates will move up to crush inflation or down to rub out a recession. Either way, stocks will take a beating at some point in the cycle. But we're not there...